<div>This is an issue relating to cross-platform usage of the ParaView .pvsm files. </div>
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<div>The problem I have is that when I create a .pvsm file under Windows and then move the file and associated datafiles to Linux, the absolute pathnames to the data files won't work (obviously). I now hand edit the file and convert the pathnames to relative pathnames which seems to work Ok.
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<div>How difficult would it be to use relative paths (relative to the .pvsm file) and add the path to the .pvsm file when locating the datafiles.</div>
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<div>E.g If I created the .pvsm file in Windows my datafile may be called:</div>
<div>"C:\Documents and Settings\amaclean\My Documents\Code\GeneralLibraries\UF\build\bin\release/bench.vtp"</div>
<div>However if I am in Linux the datafile will end up in some directory such as:</div>
<div>"/home/users/amaclean/WhoKnows/bench.vtp"</div>
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<div>So would it be possible to store these paths as relative to where the .pvsm file is stored? E.g ./bench.vtp and then let ParaView add the pathname of the .pvs, file to these names?</div>
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<div>Are there any problems/issues that the developers can see?</div>
<div>I am happy to add it as a feature request if people think it is worthwhile (I do as we have people working on different platforms in the field without a central file server).</div>
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<div>Andrew</div>
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